Upcoming Dates
Thursday, June 13 – End of the year Game day party 2:00- 3:00 Students are invited to bring a non-tech game from home to share with friends. We’ll have board games and cards in class to play, too.
Friday, June 14 – Field Day, last day for students, 11:45 release. Sign up below if you can help. Take-away lunches are available for students to order.
If your child is going to be leaving school before the final day of the year, please email both teachers. Early departures will affect how we make plans for our English class plays and other events.
Field Day Volunteers Needed
Field Day is Friday, the last day of school, June 14! If you have time to lend a helping hand please sign up here.
What’s up! Quoi de neuf?
Please send your child to school in proper footwear and sunscreen especially for field day. Please have your child wear layers as mornings will be cool. Thank you!
If your child is ill or has had a fever or vomited within the previous 24 hours, please keep your child home. If your child will be absent, please email both teachers and please call in and leave a message on the school attendance line (541) 790-7080 or email Eliza at drummond_e@4j.lane.edu.
Please ensure that you email BOTH TEACHERS when you communicate with us.
(kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu and hopper_s@4j.lane.edu)
Le français:
Mme Jana kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu Français, Sciences
What an amazing year. Your students have come a long way in French, from being hesitant and concerned whether they could do it, to speaking naturally and regularly in class. Students still speak French with me in the hallways and at carpool.
Over the summer, please remember to check the blog categories, specifically Français, sciences, géographie, Tap’Touche and use some of the resources to upkeep French. Keeping French up over the summer is important for all students, but particularly those students whose French could use a boost. If your child needs to work on his/her/their French, I have definitely already communicated with you and/or reinforced it in the report cards.
Student goal: I am applying myself to my school work. I am actively seeking learning.
Student goal: I can identify grammatical and punctuation errors in sentences in French.
Student goal: I can apply learned French grammar rules during daily speaking and writing.
Les sciences humaines (la géographie):
Presentations are complete! The completed dodecahedrons are displayed in the classroom (See below), but they will be coming home with graded presentations on Monday! Please allow your child to take you through the faces of the project; the shape represents a whole lot of work and learning.
Student goal: I begin to see my role in this world as a global citizen and to understand that my reality is not the same as other children’s in the world.
Student goal: I can identify many French-speaking (francophone) countries of the world.
Les sciences:
Student groups received a packet of objects (including plastic, paper, rubber, plastic, aluminum, copper, brass, and steel), and proceeded to make a circuit with a switch, then used the circuit to test whether a wide range of objects were insulators (un isolant) or conductors (un conducteur) of electricity. We talked about metal, open circuits, closed circuits, and the kids had a few surprises. This week, we’ll test those same objects to see which are magnetic (magnétique) and which are not!
Les copains/Buddies:
Our last buddy day was June 5. Both fourth and first grade students loved doing buddies this year and formed good relationships with their buddies. Here are a few shots of them playing (soft) Frisbee in the north field.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math
Look for your child’s final math assessments to come home on Monday. At this point, students should have correctly solved the addition, subtraction and multiplication questions on the assessment. Many students are still needing more practice in division. Students who need more practice in math calculations will have received a “2” in that area. There are ideas for summer math practice and enrichment on this blog site under the “Math” Tab above.
English & Social Studies
In English, students will rehearse and perform readers’ theater plays of Native American stories. As they run through a few more times, students will practice reading with clarity, volume and expression. On Monday we’ll make some small props and rehearse with those. Then, Wednesday, students will perform their plays for their 1st grade buddies and the other 4th grade class.
Host Families needed for next year’s interns!
Calling on Host Families for 2024-2025!
Bonjour Charlemagne families,
We are getting ready to host more interns next year…
Our Amity interns are a huge part of our school. Thanks to them, teachers in grades 2-5 can differentiate their instruction and students can experience more French speaking. We could not do this program without host families who agree to host them for 2-3 months.
The requirements to host are:
– Transport the intern to and from school,
– Offer her/his own room,
– Offer 3 meals a day
The host families don’t have to be part of our Charlemagne community.
So, tell friends, neighbors, family members!
If you have an interest in hosting, please reach out to our host family coordinator, Rachel Buciarski (Maya’s mom) at rachel@buciarski.com.
Merci beaucoup! Aurelie Sion (she/her), 2ème année
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